It Is Never Too Late to Mend
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It Is Never Too Late to Mend is an Australian feature length film
directed by W.J. Lincoln. It was based on a stage adaptation of popular novel It Is Never Too Late to Mend
by Charles Reade
about convict Australia. The novel has been credited with exposing cruelties in the Australian prison system and having helped end the convict system.
The film was shot in Melbourne and became a popular success at the box office, encouraging the Tait brothers to appoint Lincoln as the main director for their new company, Amalgamated Pictures
, which operated for over a year. The movie is now considered a lost film
.
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
directed by W.J. Lincoln. It was based on a stage adaptation of popular novel It Is Never Too Late to Mend
It Is Never Too Late to Mend (novel)
It Is Never Too Late to Mend is an 1856 novel by the British writer Charles Reade. It was later turned into a play...
by Charles Reade
Charles Reade
Charles Reade was an English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth.-Life:Charles Reade was born at Ipsden, Oxfordshire to John Reade and Anne Marie Scott-Waring; William Winwood Reade the influential historian , was his nephew. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford,...
about convict Australia. The novel has been credited with exposing cruelties in the Australian prison system and having helped end the convict system.
The film was shot in Melbourne and became a popular success at the box office, encouraging the Tait brothers to appoint Lincoln as the main director for their new company, Amalgamated Pictures
Amalgamated Pictures
Amalgamated Pictures was a short-lived Australian film production company formed in March 1911 John and Neville Tait and Millard Johnson and William Gibson...
, which operated for over a year. The movie is now considered a lost film
Lost film
A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress, where at least one copy of all American films are deposited and catalogued for copyright reasons...
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External links
- Original text of novel It is Never Too Late to Mend at Project GutenbergProject GutenbergProject Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks". Founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart, it is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of public domain books...